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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Yeah, but it happens to visible minorities more.
In the US, MUCH more. A shocking amount more. A amount that is indefensible as being anything other than racially motivated.
An amount that should be staggering the first time you hear it. Like this latest guy, who was killed after being falsely arrested. Or that other guy who got choked to death for selling individual cigarettes. Or that other guy who got shot to death by an officer that works for a police department that has 93% of their arrests being black folk.
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Of course the severity and frequency is worse among visible minorities. I didn't say or imply anything otherwise.
There is basically a list of factors that make someone an unfair target for police. Being a minority puts you at the top. Being young and male puts you near the top as well. Not being "clean-cut" will get you as well. What car you drive and how you dress will be a factor.
I certainly sympathize with minorities since they have that automatic strike against them no matter how many other hurdles they get past.
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When those cops picked you up on the side of the road to see if you had an outstanding warrant, did you end up dead? Did you end up with a criminal record? Did a cop shoot you and then plant a taser next to your body? Did they take you out into the middle of nowhere in the dead of winter, make you take off your jacket and make you walk back to town? Did they do any of those things because of the colour of your skin? No? Then I'm not sure what your anecdote is supposed to do here other than to attempt to minimize the extent that blacks and visible minorities experience abuse at the hands of law enforcement.
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The post I responded to (did you even read it??) was about simply being stopped, ID'd and interrogated without proper cause (the OP stated he was white and it never happened to him, and I said that I was white and it did happen to me). That is the only thing I was responding to in my post. Nor did I diminish it in anyway, quite the opposite. The article said that it happened to the black guy 50 times, and I stated it happened to me 4 times. A white person can never really understand what it is like to experience racism from their side, but that doesn't mean that events can't happen to white people that can help them at least empathize.
I wasn't talking about the wider issue of police brutality and framing people. I have posted on that though and I am sure our thoughts are probably the same on that.